There's a ton of chlorine, salts, sometimes flouride, and who knows what other solids in there. I don't drink tap and I wouldn't expect a baby to. Im very accustomed to drinking purified water, but every once in a while we run out and I have a glass if tap, it smells so much like chlorine that it feels like I'm drinking bleach water. And I swear it Burns my throat. Granted I am used to purified clean water so its a lot more potent to me than someone who is used to tap water. That being said, to each their own I just wouldn't ever give it to my baby if I did formula feed.

Quoting Mama to EC:" I just use tap water. BUT, I have heard that you shouldn't use warm tap water.. Only cold and then warm it afterwards."

ive heard that too, but at the same time your not suppose to put it in the microwave so then you end up having to boil water anyway to warm the water in the bottle up and it takes 15 minutes to do that and at 4:00 in the morning when I am half asleep fixing a bottle while my son is screaming for food I am not gonna spend 15-20 minutes letting him scream his head off probably to the point of throwing up so I can do things the "proper" way, KWIM?

I have had friends hound me about using tap water with my baby asking if I knew how dangerous it was and blah blah blah. It's not something I'm worried about. We drink tap water and so does she, and we live in an area where the water is OK. At the pedi they ask me if I have city water and if I use it for her bottles. Some people insist on using bottled water... You might be interested to check out the movie "Tapped" ... Bottled water isn't all we think it is!

Quoting Brantley + 1:" ive heard that too, but at the same time your not suppose to put it in the microwave so then you end ... [snip!] ... 15-20 minutes letting him scream his head off probably to the point of throwing up so I can do things the "proper" way, KWIM?"